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NEW YORK Discovery Communications is suing Amazon.com, claiming the online retailer’s popular electronic book reader the Kindle employs a Discovery-patented technology.
The suit contends that in the 1990s Discovery founder John S. Hendricks had developed technology designed to enable the secure selling of books via digital platforms. That technology was patented in November 2007, says Discovery — the same month that Amazon released the first version of the Kindle.
That product, along with the recently released Kindle 2, allows consumers to purchase and store hundreds of books via a hand-held digital reading device.
Discovery believes that Amazon owes some of its Kindle success to Hendricks and his company.
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